TheBostonStraggler

In the 25 years I have been watching football I have never seen a QB as visibly afraid as Eason was in that SB. And in 25 years of football watching, I have never heard a player injury report say "stretched nerves" as a reason he was out of the game. There is NO doubt in my mind Grogan should have played that game from start to finish. Grogan took one serious royal beating like you will never see in today's NFL yet stood tall on EVERY play. Say what you want about Grogan but that guy had nerves of steel!

With that said, (if memory serves me) the Patriots drove on their first possession to the red zone. I forget who it was but the receiver had the TD pass RIGHT in his hands and just dropped it (not a Baltimore 2011 AFCCG drop, an actual 'just dropped it'). If that was held onto and considering the Bears had given up, I think, two FGs in all the playoffs, that TD could have been a Rocky IV moment. "You hurt him! You see, he's not a machine". Maybe that could have given the Patriots the confidence they needed to make it competitive.....but I doubt it. That was the most fearsome dominating defense I have ever seen (with due respect to how fearsome and dominating the Raven defense was some years ago).

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Joker

Stanley Morgan...

TheBostonStraggler

Let me add that I also don't think I have ever seen a RB as visibly afraid as Craig James was in that SB. Not a good thing when your starting QB and your starting RB can be seen all but trembling before the ball was even snapped.

Can't say I can blame anyone for being full of fear as they look at the 85 Bears about to jail break towards you with a fair chance they will mangle your body. But for a pro football player to be so visibly fearful was an odd thing to see. With that kind of intimidation at work, the game was probably over before it even started.

And yes, Buddy Ryan was a punk! Loved seeing him shoot him mouth off about what he would do with the Eagles only to fail....

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TheBostonStraggler

Damn, was it Morgan? Huh, well Morgan was instrumental in the playoff run. A drop happens to the best of them....

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Joker

NO ONE had an answer for the 46 that season except, of all teams, the Miami Dolphins. Marino beat them and beat them good by using exactly what all 32 teams (well, 31...the Jets just suck at everything) do to counteract the look today.Teams just run unbalanced offensive looks at the weakside DE and rip the 46 to smithereens.

By '87, it was yesterday's news and Ryan was unceremoniously fired 4 years later in Philly. He was roundly criticized by Jimmy Johnson for putting out bounties on Cowboy players,notably Aikman when they played in 89 and 90.

He went to Houston and tore apart THAT team by criticizing Gilbride's offense. Montan beat his vaunted defense as an old Joe in KC and that sent the Bud-mouth to Arizona where he meekly croaked and ended his NFL career. His son Wrecks takes right after him and has either learned or inherited every single scumbag trait the old man ever had.

**** him and his whole degenerate progeny.

Brady_to_Moss

i love rant threads....WHY ARE THERE TAXES....AHHHH

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Joker

yeah, Straggs...Eason threw the only good pass of the day out of the six he threw before he went down with puzzy cramps...he hit Morgan right in the bread basket, both hands at the Chicgo 5 or 6 yard line and no one in front of him...the very next play the little squirmer overthrew a wide open Stephan Starring in the EZ...wide friggin' open and Tony the Mope blew the gimme...Eason went 0-6 and left after getting sacked by Richard Dent...I think the injury was "he hit me too hard!!!".....we passed on Marino to draft that cupcake...krist, now I'm sick to my stomach again...

cmasspatsfan

Remember the fight with Gilbride on the sidelines? classic

TheBostonStraggler

Damn, great memory Joker. The only reason I remember the dropped pass so well is my brother was adamant for years that the drop made that a completely different game.
So am I remembering it wrong or was Eason in that SB the most visibly afraid QB you have ever seen?

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Your remembering right, it got to the point when a Bear got near him he turtled, I was pissed and felt sorry for him at the same time. Im not sure if Stanley Morgan hangs on to the ball its a different game, they still would have rattled Eason.